Back to Reality

Chapter 3

"Malfoy!" Hermione yelled, "What are you doing here?"

Draco jumped, and everyone turned to look at him.

"Granger? I didn't know you lived here," Draco answered.

"Whatever, now get off my property, Malfoy," Hermione snarled.

Draco turned to leave, but before he could take two steps, Mrs. Granger spoke.

"Who's your little friend, Hermione?"

"This is Draco Malfoy. He goes to school with us," Hermione answered.

"Well, why don't you invite him in for movies and popcorn," Mr. Granger suggested.

"That's a great idea," Mrs. Granger said, not noticing the horrified looks on everyone's faces.

Hermione knew better than to argue with her parents, so she had no choice but to invite Draco in. When everyone else was well away from them, Hermione pulled Draco aside.

"If you make so much as one comment about my parents, I swear I'll curse you into oblivion," she snarled.

"Whatever you say, Granger," Draco said coolly, and then headed in to join the party.

* * *

"Put the movie in the GTR," Ron said excitedly.

"That's VCR, Ron, Harry told him.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Fred, George, Ginny, and Draco were sitting in Hermione's living room.

Hermione put the movie into the VCR. Everyone was excited to see themselves in the movie. All through the movie, they kept making comments.

"Dudley's fatter than that!"

"That does not look like me!"

"That never happened!"

"That spell doesn't do that!"

"That's not where my scar is!"

"We're hardly in this movie at all!"

Finally, they ran out of things to say. They were watching a scene in the movie where Harry learns the secret of Tom Riddle's diary. Tom was taking Harry into a memory to shoe him who opened the Chamber of Secrets. When tom's diary glowed gold, Hermione's whole living room seemed to light up. Suddenly, as Harry was being sucked into the diary, Ron and his friends felt themselves being sucked forward, right into Hermione's television.

* * *

The eight of them landed in a tangled heap on the ground. They quickly untangled themselves and stood up.

"Hermione, what's going on?" Neville asked, his voice shaking.

"Where are we?" Fred asked.

"Does this happen in all Muggle movies?" George asked

Hermione looked around, speechless. She saw lots of people moving cameras and other things around, but they all seemed too busy to notice them. She also saw many trailers. The one closest to them had a star on it that read: Alan Rickman/Severus Snape.

"Hey guys, look at this," she yelled to the others, indicating the trailer.

"Who's Alan Rickman, and what does he have to do with Snape?" Ron asked.

"I don't know," Ginny answered, "but does anyone else feel like we shouldn't be here?"

"What's wrong, Weasette, scared?" Draco said coolly.

"Shut up, Malfoy," Harry told him, "I think Ginny's right. We should find out where we are, and how to get back to Hermione's."

"I'm not going anywhere with you lot," Draco sneered.

"Fine," Fred shot back, "stay here. We're going to have a look around.

They all started to walk away, leaving Draco standing there. After a few moments, loneliness and fear began to cloud over him.

"Hey, wait up!" he called, and ran to catch up with the others.

* * *

Harry and the others walked all around, admiring the scenery and looking for something familiar.

After awhile, Neville heard voices. They were coming from another trailer. This one had a star that said Emma Watson/Hermione Granger.

Everyone looked at Hermione. She was staring at the star with a horrified look on her face.

"Should we go in?" Fred asked.

"Yeah," Ron answered, and Hermione slowly pushed the door open.

Inside the trailer, eight children around their age were dancing to some strange music. They had their backs to the door, and were making so much noise that they didn't notice Hermione and the others. They stood, amused, as the other children continued dancing.

"Reverse, reverse," the music said.

The dancing children turned around. When they saw Harry and the others standing in the doorway, they stopped dancing immediately. A few let out screams of surprise, and a brown-haired boy quickly turned off the music.

"Oh my gosh," Hermione gasped, "These are the people from the movie we were watching!"

Rupert beamed. "You recognize us, huh?"

"Who are you guys, and how did you get in here?" Daniel asked.

"You wouldn't believe us if we told you, and we don't know," Harry answered.

"Try us," Tom told them.

"Aright, I'm Harry Potter,"

"You're Harry Potter," Oliver said skeptically, "Prove it."

Harry pushed back his bangs, revealing his infamous lightning bolt scar.

"Well, that doesn't prove anything," James told him.

"Ask him something you can't find out by reading the books," Tom suggested.

"If we did that, how would we know if he gets it right?" Emma pointed out.

"Oh, yeah," Tom replied, blushing.

"When you're finished deciding whether or not I am who I say I am!" Harry snapped.

"Ok, ok, don't get your underwear in a bunch," James said, and he, Oliver, Fred, and George burst into laughter. Harry glared at them, and they fell silent.

"So, what are your names?" Hermione asked.

Emma hurried forward and stuck out her hand. "I'm Emma Watson, and this is Rupert Grint and Dan Radcliffe."

"Hey," Rupert and Daniel replied.

Emma continued. "That's Matt Lewis, Bonnie Wright, Tom Felton, and the Phelps twins, James and Oliver."

"So, you're really Harry Potter?" Matthew asked.

"No, he's Professor Snape," Fred answered sarcastically.

"Fred, don't be mean," Hermione warned, then she turned back to Emma.

"I'm Hermione granger, and this is Ron, Ginny, Fred, and George Weasley, Neville Longbottom, and Draco Malfoy," she said, indicating Draco, who was sulking in a corner.

"How did you guys get here anyway?" Daniel asked.

"I don't know," Ron answered, "one minute, we were watching a movie on Hermione's GTR, and the next thing we know, we get sucked into the tellybox."

Everyone started laughing.

"What?" Ron asked.

"It's VCR and television, not GTR and tellybox," Bonnie said, still laughing.

Ron turned red. "Well, I don't know anything about Muggle stuff," he muttered.

Hermione quickly changed the subject. "Do you think you could help us get back to our world?" she asked the actors.

Emma's face lit up. "Of course we'll help you," she shrieked, "How often do you get to help Harry Potter and Ron Weasley?"

"Never," Tom said, "because they're not supposed to be real."

Draco took out his wand and started to point it at tom, but Hermione grabbed his wrist.

"Don't do anything stupid, Malfoy," she hissed.

"Did I give you permission to touch me, Mudblood?" he snapped, snatching his arm out of Hermione's reach.

Ron jumped at Draco. It took the combined efforts of Harry, Fred, George, Neville, and Daniel to hold him back. They all quickly left the trailer, Ron still trying to get at Draco.